Join the School of Arts & Sciences' Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies on Monday, November 10th at 5:30PM for the film screening of Together for Water: Defending the Chocó Rainforest. The screening will be in the Van Pelt Library Film Screening Room 425.  Please RSVP below.

Together for Water, is a documentary that is the result of a collective and intercultural 20-year process of two communities coming together to present the first constitutional-level Rights of Nature lawsuit in the world. The people of the Afro-descendant community of La Chiquita and the Awá Indigenous community of Guadualito were once free to walk their rainforests, drink water, and bathe in their rivers. When the oil palm companies arrived, everything changed. The companies replaced the rainforest with monocultures and contaminated the water. In this film, the young people listen attentively to the elders’ life stories and struggles and carry on the fight for the human right to water💦 through filmmaking.

This film screening is also the first installment of the Latin American film series directed by Dr. Kristina Lyons.

There will be time for a Q&A with the film's general producer, Juli Hazlewood.

This event is also part of the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies External Speaker Series, and Dr. Hazlewood is being hosted by Dr. Kristina Lyons. 

Please bring sure to bring your Penn ID or another form of ID for entrance into the library.  

RSVP here:

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